Internet and US National Security?

I would be surprised if ALL of your submissions have been posted. But regardless of that factual issue, YES, almost all *substantive* and *original* submissions to ICW are posted, regardless of their political position. So if most of your submissions have been posted it's because you've made informed, substantive contributions. And that is, prima facie, a refutation of your statement:

"it is chilling to believe that, should I write something you consider uninteresting, wrong, silly, [...or...] dangerous it will be rejected."

Can we get real? First, as you yourself demonstrate, almost everything you post has been given air time. Now if you choose to be "chilled" by my open recognition of the editorial responsibility to maintain an interesting, accurate, constructive and well-informed web site, and by the need to avoid letting ICW become a shill for people with hidden agendas, then so be it. Name a SINGLE useful web site that posts anything and everything submitted to it.

Let me assure you that it's not disagreement per se with me or other editors that leads to rejection. I post a lot of stuff I don't agree with. But I also delete stuff that is blatantly self-serving (e.g., barely disguised advertisements, or repeated opinion pieces that have obviously been paid for by specific interests), stuff that is full of false assertions or contains highly consequential assertions that cannot be verified, stuff that is redundant (on any major development we may get three or four submissions saying the same thing), stuff that is way off topic, and stuff that is illiterate (you'd be surprised at some of the typo-laden, ungrammatical stuff we get) etc.

You can disagree with my personal editorial policy all you like, just please spare me the cant about it being censorship or about us being "no different from ICANN." You know better, I know better, and every reasonable reader knows better. And note well that any editor who gets to a ICW submission before me applies their own personal editorial policy, and there's surprisingly little coordination or discussion. It's about as free an environment as you can expect.

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Re:Something's screwy here by Mueller

Re:Something's screwy here
by fnord (reversethis-{moc.oohay} {ta} {k2yorg}) on Wednesday December 22 2004, @12:25AM (#14602)
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I believe I was the first to respond to Bruce Levinson's first article on ICANNWatch last February and queried whether the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness for whom he works was a front for deep pocket right wing interests (I did research CRE as best as Google allows). This led to an interesting exchange of private correspondence with Bruce which led me to believe I was wrong with my initial impression. I don't think I have ever publicly apologized for that, so let me do so here and now. Regardless, I would far rather see something posted that can be critiqued than have it preemtively disappeared.

As it happens I was writing an article for ICANNWatch regarding another aspect of George Tenet's statements when Bruce Levinson's piece appeared. I could have written a similar article and, indeed, wouldn't have written it much differently, so I fail to see how there is something about it that apparently barely evaded your filters. As editors you of course have to make choices about what to publish, but I don't see anything about the submission in question being 'uninteresting, wrong, silly, [...or...] dangerous'.

I will hopefully eventually get to submitting my article regarding George Tenet, it is a work in progress and related events are continuing to unfold, and yes, if rejected, it would be only the second time that has happened to me here, the other being self-inflicted. I am at least as surprised by that as you seem to be sceptical. -g

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